About This Item

  • TitleBatty about daddy
  • Call NumberDODG_1061
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo boys posing with bats, gloves, and oversize jerseys at Ebbets Field. Caption on verso: "Batty About Daddy: Looking more like they were headed for bed with full-length nightshirts rather than on hand to root for their respective fathers, Kevin Snider, left, 4 1/2-year-old heir to the Duke, and Gilly Hodges, 3 1/2-year-old son of Gil, make an imposing pair as they stand before the Ebbets Field dugout . . . ".
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep. 26, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSnider, Duke, 1926-2011 -- Family ; Hodges, Gil, 1924-1972 -- Family ; Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Boys -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.